ZACHARY NANBU
Faculty of Global and Regional Studies Department of Global and Regional Studies
Associate Professor
Last Updated :2025/07/16

Researcher Profile and Settings

      Research funding number

      60983187

    Published Papers

    • Simple language, sophisticated actions
      Eric Hauser; Zachary Nanbu
      Pragmatics and Society, 16 Jan. 2025, Scientific journal
    • Embodied Mapping: Negotiating Epistemic Access during Initial Place Reference
      Zachary Nanbu; Tim Greer
      Research on Language and Social Interaction, Oct. 2024, Scientific journal
    • Creating Obstacles to Progressivity: Task Expansion in Second Language Role‐Plays
      Zachary Nanbu; Tim Greer
      TESOL Quarterly, Dec. 2023, Scientific journal
    • Proffering absurd candidate formulations in the pursuit of progressivity
      Cheikhna Amar; Zachary Nanbu; Tim Greer
      Classroom Discourse, 03 Jul. 2022, Scientific journal
    • Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking
      TIM GREER; ZACHARY NANBU
      The Modern Language Journal, Wiley, 106(S1) 69 - 88, Jan. 2022, Scientific journal
    • General and Explicit Test Prompts
      Tim Greer & Zachary Nanbu
      Second Language Pragmatics and English Language Education in East Asia, 28 Dec. 2020
    • “Do you know banana boat?”: Occasioning overt knowledge negotiations in Japanese EFL conversation
      Zachary Nanbu
      Journal of Pragmatics, Elsevier {BV}, 169 30 - 48, Nov. 2020, Scientific journal

    Presentations

    • Giving directions in a virtual world: Resources for managing fragmented perception
      Tim Greer; Adam Brand; Zachary Nanbu
      4th Conference on Discourse, Culture & Interaction (DCI-4), 05 Dec. 2024, 05 Dec. 2024, 06 Dec. 2024, Oral presentation
    • On materiality, morphability and ephemerality in L2 role-plays: Enlisting environmental objects and their mimed counterparts
      Zachary Nanbu; Tim Greer; Eric Hauser
      4th ICOP-L2 conference, 05 Jun. 2024, 05 Jun. 2024, 07 Jun. 2024, Oral presentation
    • Managing Co-Presence during a Virtual Reality English Class
      Zachary Nanbu
      ICCA 2023, 02 Jul. 2023, 26 Jun. 2023, 02 Jul. 2023
    • Occasioned enactments in L2 role-plays: Enlisting environmental objects and their mimed counterparts
      Tim Greer, Zachary Nanbu
      ICCA 2023, 02 Jul. 2023, 26 Jun. 2023, 02 Jul. 2023, Oral presentation
    • "Get outta the way!": Orienting to Spatial Violations in Virtual Reality
      Zachary Nanbu
      GREIP @ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 25 May 2023, Oral presentation
    • Marked re-occasionings of learnables in a cooking-for-learning context
      Tim Greer; Zachary Nanbu
      AAAL 2023 Conference, 18 Mar. 2023, 18 Mar. 2023, 21 Mar. 2023, Oral presentation
    • Embodied list construction as a resource in L2 interaction
      Zachary Nanbu
      3rd ICOP-L2 conference, 09 Sep. 2022, 08 Sep. 2022, 09 Sep. 2022, Oral presentation
    • Two practices of address in student use of L2 English for initiating actions
      Eric Hauser, Zachary Nanbu
      3rd ICOP-L2 conference, 08 Sep. 2022, 08 Sep. 2022, 09 Sep. 2022, Oral presentation
    • "I got stepped on!": Participant orientations to proximity and space during a VR English class
      Zachary Nanbu
      5th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, 14 May 2022, 2022, 2022, Oral presentation
    • "So canoe": On the expert deployment of minimal linguistic resources
      Zachary Nanbu; Tim Greer
      4th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, 24 Mar. 2021, 24 Mar. 2021, 28 Mar. 2021, Oral presentation
    • Embodying gradations of knowledge in novice EFL conversation
      Zachary Nanbu, Tim Greer
      2nd ICOP-L2 conference, 29 May 2019, 29 May 2019, 31 May 2019, Oral presentation
    • Mapping understanding: Embodied action and place reference in second language interaction
      Zachary Nanbu; Tim Greer
      3rd CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, 24 May 2019, 24 May 2019, 26 May 2019, Oral presentation
    • Displays of understanding in paired EFL test interaction
      Zachary Nanbu
      AIEMCA Conference, 27 Nov. 2018, 27 Nov. 2018, 29 Nov. 2018, Oral presentation
    • Understanding in L2 interaction (Panel)
      Zachary Nanbu
      JALT International Conference, 23 Nov. 2018, 23 Nov. 2018, 26 Nov. 2018
    • Overt demonstrations of understanding in Japanese EFL Conversation.
      Zachary Nanbu
      2nd CAN Asia Symposium on Second Language Interaction, 26 May 2018, Oral presentation
    • "Do you know?": An interactional tool for the management and achievement of intersubjectivity in paired EFL test interaction
      Zachary Nanbu
      CAN Asia Symposium on Second Language Interaction, 27 May 2017, 27 May 2017, 28 May 2017, Oral presentation